Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
API Have A Dream
Search
Jed Schmidt
May 07, 2014
Programming
0
580
API Have A Dream
These slides are from the presentation I gave at Front Trends 2014, in Warsaw, Poland.
Jed Schmidt
May 07, 2014
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Jed Schmidt
See All by Jed Schmidt
Building BoroJS
jedschmidt
1
180
CSSConf.eu Intro
jedschmidt
5
660
Markup and Style without HTML and CSS
jedschmidt
8
690
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
Basic Architectures
denyspoltorak
0
660
360° Signals in Angular: Signal Forms with SignalStore & Resources @ngLondon 01/2026
manfredsteyer
PRO
0
120
フルサイクルエンジニアリングをAI Agentで全自動化したい 〜構想と現在地〜
kamina_zzz
0
400
FOSDEM 2026: STUNMESH-go: Building P2P WireGuard Mesh Without Self-Hosted Infrastructure
tjjh89017
0
160
CSC307 Lecture 08
javiergs
PRO
0
670
AIで開発はどれくらい加速したのか?AIエージェントによるコード生成を、現場の評価と研究開発の評価の両面からdeep diveしてみる
daisuketakeda
1
2.4k
ThorVG Viewer In VS Code
nors
0
770
Rust 製のコードエディタ “Zed” を使ってみた
nearme_tech
PRO
0
160
例外処理とどう使い分ける?Result型を使ったエラー設計 #burikaigi
kajitack
16
6k
QAフローを最適化し、品質水準を満たしながらリリースまでの期間を最短化する #RSGT2026
shibayu36
2
4.3k
Implementation Patterns
denyspoltorak
0
280
フロントエンド開発の勘所 -複数事業を経験して見えた判断軸の違い-
heimusu
7
2.8k
Featured
See All Featured
YesSQL, Process and Tooling at Scale
rocio
174
15k
Speed Design
sergeychernyshev
33
1.5k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
gr2m
96
14k
Joys of Absence: A Defence of Solitary Play
codingconduct
1
290
Build The Right Thing And Hit Your Dates
maggiecrowley
38
3k
技術選定の審美眼(2025年版) / Understanding the Spiral of Technologies 2025 edition
twada
PRO
117
110k
The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes
chrisshort
51
51k
svc-hook: hooking system calls on ARM64 by binary rewriting
retrage
1
99
The Art of Programming - Codeland 2020
erikaheidi
57
14k
What's in a price? How to price your products and services
michaelherold
247
13k
The browser strikes back
jonoalderson
0
360
How to Build an AI Search Optimization Roadmap - Criteria and Steps to Take #SEOIRL
aleyda
1
1.9k
Transcript
API Have A Dream
None
None
You didn't know Schmidt
Schmidt happens
Deep Schmidt
Full of Schmidt
None
U+0142
ł LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE
Hi Jed, ! We are Paweł Czerski & Damian Wielgosik,
and we organize Front-Trends, one of Europe’s best conferences where front-end lovers, developers, designers and entrepreneurs come together in Warsaw, Poland for 3 amazing days.
None
(apologies to Paweł)
(apologies to Paweł) (apołogies to Paweł)
@jedschmidt
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
hamburger icon
hamburger icon manburger icon
API Have A Dream
Libraries & Frameworks & Build Tools & Compilers
1. The present. 2. The future? 3. One weird trick.
1. The present.
None
HTML
None
None
JavaScript
None
None
Libraries
None
None
None
Frameworks
None
None
None
None
None
Build Tools
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
Warsaw Developers Union
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
Compilers
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
1. The present.
2. The future?
Libraries & Frameworks & Build Tools & Compilers
None
None
None
None
None
None
Libraries & Frameworks & Build Tools & Compilers
A sufficiently advanced build tool is indistinguishable from a compiler.
With libraries, you call them.
With frameworks, they call you.
Compilers make the phone.
We can compile our styles.
We can compile our code.
Can we compile our apps?
What if jQuery were a compiler?
None
asm.js
asm.js targets a performant subset of JS.
None
asm.dom should target a performant subset of the DOM.
Virtual DOM
2. The future?
3. One weird trick.
dependencies
new languages
new APIs
control flow
runtime
Let's use virtual DOMs as our asm.dom
None
None
cooking → human productivity compiling → developer productivity
Let's start cooking.
Thank you.
Join us tomorrow at 16:30 to talk about the future
of frameworks.